... comment, for example, that 'The difference between Germany's record trade surplus and Britain's widening trade deficit is that Germany has factories, Britain has The Office', is both – and catches the tone and central theme of this book. Some of the book's content will be familiar to readers of this magazine, Private Eye's coverage of the PFI fraud, or Elliot's column in The Guardian. What may not be so familiar is a section near the end, in which in a couple of pages they offer an analysis of NuLab's origins, tracing them back through the formation of the SDP to the pro-EEC campaign in the referendum of 1975. They see in these groups a ...

... for years seemed beyond reach. No one imagined that such a book would ever be written: a single volume that once and for all resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible....Every detail and nuance are accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi's irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last it all makes sense. ' To do what is claimed here, certainly to satisfy the uneducated and uninformed, isn't that difficult a trick; and the trick is inadvertently revealed ...

... in France. His assistant, Colonel Moreau, has ties to SDECE, the French foreign intelligence service. Leading Gaullists, most notably Pierre Lemarchand, saw the potential of controlling the Templars to gain occult political influence and intelligence. He ordered a former ranking member of SAC, Charles Lascorz, to infiltrate and take over the Templars. Through fraud and strong-arm tactics - methods that came naturally to Lascorz, who was as proficient at blackmail as he was at gold and arms smuggling - Lascorz did take control and staff key offices of the Templars with trusted associates from SAC. Its influence should not be underestimated; as one Lascorz associate observed, "On trouve des templiers ...

... July. See also Observer 26 June for events leading up to this. More police raids on bookshops reported in Rights (NCCL) Autumn 1984. Data Protection British Medical Association get amendment to Data Protection Bill to prevent confidential files being disclosed. Guardian 6 June Right on cue, BMA reports widespread claims of police seizure of medical files in fraud investigations of doctors' expenses claims. Now we know why they are so keen to get their records exempt! (or is that unduly cynical?) Guardian and Times 15 June Two part account of Data Protection Bill, Times 4 and 5 June Policing Miners National Reporting Centre - profile of its boss, Hall of Humberside. Sunday ...

... assets to private owner-ship. There can't be many people reading this magazine who need to be be con-vinced of this; but if you know someone who remains a fan of privatisation, who really believes all the guff about compet-ition producing efficiency, this would be the book to offer them. It always looked like fraud and theft and this is demon-strated by the authors. This is a deeply depressing book. Not because there are horrible revelations in it, but because of what it says about our politicians' inability to process data about their environment. For the evidence of the failure of privatisation was available by the late 1980s and here we ...

... us that in January 1980 'the Circle' discussed ways of promoting Strauss' image in international publications. Within a month the campaign had begun. On 15th February Crozier published an article in Sir James Goldsmith's magazine NOW!. This dealt in depth with an allegation made in Der Spiegel (June 1963) that Strauss had been involved in a fraud when he was a Minister. Strauss was later exonerated but as a result of the notorious 'Spiegel Affair' Strauss' hopes of becoming Chancellor were dashed. Crozier's article was the beginning of a campaign of rehabilitation. Goldsmith himself joined in this campaign. In January 1981 he addressed the Conservative Media Committee in the House of Commons on 'The ...

... to see how Caro handles the vice presidential years in the next volume. For if Caro isn't curious about Johnson's personal wealth, how is he going to handle the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes scandals which threatened to finish his political career and put him in prison? The important one is Estes. He was running a classic agricultural subsidies fraud in Texas, getting public money for crops that weren't being grown. In 1962 money it was producing $20 million a year - we are talking serious money here - with which he was paying off politicians, including Johnson, to work the scam. In 1962/3 this began leaking out and a number of people were murdered ...

... distance from the subject – the people and the bullshit theories – impossible for financial journalists, none of whom, to my knowledge, have written adequate accounts of the mess we are in. Gillian Tett's Fool's Gold is about the best of them but she works for the Financial Times and is unable or unwilling to look this vast set of frauds and thefts in the face. RR 16 En passant Taibbi makes short work of the adolescent 'philosophy' of Greenspan's mentor, Ayn Rand, who was given so much undeserved prominence in the Adam Curtis documentary, 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace', shown on BBC2 in late May 2011. Page 101 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 ...

... 'Loy' Factor story. But even it is fiction – or part fiction – some of it, the 6 Which seems to have been falsified; if there was such a meeting it wasn't that night. 7 <http://home.earthlink.net/~sixthfloor/> Page 36 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 account of the frauds involved in working as a circus carny, and his account of the Dallas crime-politics-law enforcement nexus in 1963, is very interesting. And there is even an outside chance that he is what he says he is: a living witness to some of these events. Page 37 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 ...

... , I can't say. ' Oyston was jailed for six years in 1996 for the rape and indecent assault of one of the girls. He has since lost two appeals and an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. A year later, More was named in Florida as one of 15 defendants accused of racketeering, mail fraud and employing a Hambro subsidiary called Network Security Management to bug the U.S . phone billing system and steal items from the Florida home of Douglas Leese, a millionaire business rival of the Littlewoods stores family. Douglas Leese's New York lawyer David Jaroslavicz claimed in the 140 dollar million Miami action that More and the other defendants'. ...